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Hampton Village JCPenney Closing in New Year

Shoppers view merchandise being sold at discount prices at the JCPenney at the Columbia Mall on July 24, 2017 in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
The JCPenney is having a store liquidation sale and plans to close July 31, 2017. Abandoned by the big brands, deserted by the young, the American mall, once temples of the shopping, have become ghost towns, victims of the explosion of online shopping. / AFP PHOTO / Don Emmert / TO GO WITH AFP STORY by John BIERS, "Deserted, US shopping centers look for a future" (DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – JCPenney will be closing its location in South City.

Since 1949, Penney’s has been operating in Hampton Village at Hampton and Chippewa. The store will close at the end of January.

Liquidation sales will begin January 2.

When the store chain announced earlier this year its plans to close almost 140 stores, no St. Louis-area locations were on the list. A company spokesman says the Hampton Village location doesn’t meet company expectations.